To coordinate and execute trading and shipping operations, including vessel sourcing and allocation, product importation, cargo movement, vessel monitoring, ship-to-ship operations, regulatory compliance, and coordination with shipping lines, suppliers, financial institutions and relevant government agencies to ensure timely and cost-effective product delivery.
This title should make it much easier for someone searching for roles in oil & gas trading, vessel operations, chartering, marine logistics, or petroleum product importation to immediately understand what they are
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in a Trading function in a similar organisation,
- Minimum of bachelor's degree / HND in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Social Sciences, or any other relevant discipline.
- Deep knowledge of petroleum products, shipping, terminal and vessel operations
- Excellent reporting and analytical skills
- Acts promptly to ensure availability of vessels for product delivery.
- Monitors timelines and process relating to receipt and offloading to ship cargo to avoid or minimize incidences of demurrage.
- Supports a proactive safety conscious environment line with company's health and safety policy by involvement in implementation.
- Confirms vessel availability for hiring in line with the requesting party's request.
- Prepares vessel allocation schedule.
- Liaises with the finance department to obtain funds/secure bank loans for product importation.
- Maintains good relationships with shipping lines for better bargains/services.
- Facilitates the operations for off-loading and product shortage logistics as well as ship to ship transfer.
- Documentation/record keeping of shipping transactions, and apt delivery to relevant authorities.
- Obtain the loading order and forwards the voyage details to the vessel captain via e-mail.
- Receiving cast-off reports from vessel captain and forwards it to the port's operations manager.
- Monitors the vessel voyage status to determine the location coordinates of the vessel through the fleet management module.
- Prepares progress reports on the monitoring of the various vessels stating their current positions against the plan, off-track distance, estimated time of arrival, issues identified as well as recommendations.
- Prepares post-operations reports for review by the Trading Manager.
- Interface with government agencies, NPA, customs, NIMASA, DPR e.t.c to meet regulatory requirements.
- Monitor and regularly report on the financial and operational performance of the Trading Operations to Executive Management
- Allocate resources as required by the Trading department to ensure achievement of set targets.
- Manage relationships with key suppliers.
- Engages with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders to ensure operations run smoothly across all locations.